7. Two things I have asked of you; do not deny them to me before I die.
8. Remove, far from me, vanity and lying words. Give me neither begging, nor wealth. Apportion to me only the necessities of my life,
9. lest perhaps, being filled, I might be enticed into denial, and say: 'Who is the Lord?' Or, being compelled by destitution, I might steal, and then perjure myself in the name of my God.
10. Do not accuse a servant to his lord, lest he curse you, and you fall.
11. There is a generation which curses their father, and which does not bless their mother.
12. There is a generation which seems pure to themselves, and yet they are not even washed from their filthiness.
13. There is a generation, whose eyes have been elevated, and their eyelids are lifted on high.
14. There is a generation which has swords in place of teeth, and which commands their molars to devour the indigent from the earth and the poor from among men.
15. The leech has two daughters, who say, 'Bring, bring.' Three things are insatiable, and a fourth never says 'Enough':
16. Hell, and the mouth of the womb, and a land that is not filled with water. And truly, fire never says, 'Enough.'
17. The eye of one who mocks his father and who despises the childbearing of his mother, let the ravens of the torrent tear it out, and let the sons of the eagles consume it.
18. Three things are difficult for me, and about a fourth, I am nearly ignorant:
19. the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man in adolescence.